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Chris Matthews Will Tell You Which Games The Poors May Play
First: you can embed Media Matters videos now? Hooray! Second: oh god Chris Matthews we almost sympathized with you after that embarrassing Times Magazine disaster but this is beyond the pale. He's so desperate to prove his "Obama = elitist" Dowdian bullshit narrative that he's decided pool is for rich people? Ok. Sure. Whatever. Your blue-collar cred is amazing, Chris! You've apparently never walked into a shitty bar anywhere in America. Still, memo to Barack Obama: if you want to prove your manly athleticism, the basketball thing won't work, because it is too black. And the pool thing won't work because Chris Matthews has never seen a pool table outside of a wealthy friend's rec room. Obviously Obama should demonstrate his solidarity with the working classes by blowing all his campaign money on online gambling.
class war
'New York' Feature: You Are a Poor Fool
Today, New York plays a little game to make you feel like a moron. What if you had had $100,000 to invest in 1998? Well, you would probably still be a rich person now, but bear with them. They offer a number of examples of investments you could've made instead of spending all your time getting wasted and listening to the New Radicals (was it really that long ago!). Sure, they include a couple ringers that woulda lost you money (theglobe.com stock! A BMW!), but otherwise it's a rich catalog of things you were too poor to afford then that now you are all the poorer for not having bought. 3,300 shares of Apple! A townhouse just about anywhere in New York! Gold! Investments they missed, after the jump. More »
the rich
The Official Pooper-Scooper of Barney's
We hear that Barney's, the high-end Madison Avenue department store, actually has someone on staff whose job it is to be the store pooper scooper, cleaning up after all the little purse-dogs that the veryveryvery important ladies who lunch bring in... As the saying goes, the stagehands have the best view in the house, et cetera.
creative underclass
To Be Middle-Class in NYC (Lol!)
In the L Magazine's most recent "Money" issue, Adam Bonislawski makes the point that striving to become a middle-class New Yorker is a.) hard, and b.) perhaps not worth the effort, "like swimming the English Channel or climbing Everest without oxygen, or translating the Bible into LOLcats." Sounds familiar! More »
class war
The Poors To Protest New York's Richest At Waldorf-Astoria At Noon
White financiers are all flooding up to the Waldorf Astoria this morning for the opening of today's Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst confab! The topics and the attendees are undeniably sexy; Paul Gigot, the WSJ's editorial page editor, Hamilton James, president of Blackstone Group, and, most of all, David Rubenstein, the reformed liberal, capitalism evangelist, Bush family friend and co-founder of private equity firm the Carlyle Group, who is not to be confused with uber-publicist Howard Rubenstein. And for some reason, New York's poor people are going to show up and protest the intricate system of tax breaks and benefits that help the rich amass more capital. More »
class war
Yale Hates The Poors
For her Yale senior project, financial aid student Aurora Nichols took pictures of three months' worth of her mundane purchases and displayed them alongside her classmates' abstract paintings. This prompted quite a bit of attention for Aurora on campus, including a profile in the Hartford Courant in which Aurora revealed some less-than-flattering assessments of class dynamics at her alma mater. Then, on the autoadmit message boards, the richies tore her a new one. More »
ad hoc altarcations
'Post' Weddings Section Not Staying In Its Lane
The New York Post has once again rejected their mandate and chosen a bunch of well-groomed professionals for their weddings section, leaving us speechless and a little nostalgic for humbler days. If these trends keep up, Ad Hoc might be headed for the guillotine. That said, there are a few gems in today's batch of lovers—most notably, a dude named Albino who manages that delicious Peruvian place on 5th Avenue in Park Slope; also a couple who met on Nerve.com.More »
class war
'Anthropologie' Throws a Bone to the Poors
From the May 2007 Anthropologie catalog, page 4. More »
altarcations
Ad Hoc Altarcations: Don't Mind the Leaking Duffel Bag
Each Monday, Intern Alexis uses a rigorous scale to rank the happy pair-bonds cemented in the Times wedding announcements. But surely, the Times can't contain all the nuptial bliss to be experienced in the metro area. Ergo, the Post's weddings section, where the couples require a more flexible scale that can take into consideration differences in, say, life experience. And body type. More »
altarcations
Ad Hoc Altarcations: Wanna Get Chinese After?
Each Monday, Intern Alexis uses a rigorous scale to rank the happy pair-bonds cemented in the Times wedding announcements. But surely, the Times can't contain all the nuptial bliss to be experienced in the metro area. Ergo, the Post's weddings section, where the couples require a more flexible scale that can take into consideration differences in, say, life experience, and body type. More »
new york post
Ad Hoc Altarcations: 'New York Post' Weddings
Each Monday, Intern Alexis uses a rigorous, super-scientific scale to rank the happy pair-bonds cemented in the previous weekend's Times wedding announcements. But surely, the Times can't contain all the nuptial bliss to be experienced in the metro area. Ergo, the Post's new weddings section! As one might suspect, though, Post couples don't quite lend themselves to the same sort of, well, systematicity as the Times crowd. It's almost like there are real Americans living amongst us in New York! Thus, a more flexible scale is in order—one which takes into consideration differences in, say, life experience. And body type. More »
new york observer
The Point of Living in Connecticut or Westchester Revealed At Last
"The entire point of living in Connecticut or Westchester is to limit your exposure to people who are from Long Island and New Jersey," said one magazine editor who has been commuting from Westport, Conn., through Grand Central for over a decade. "That's why we live there, it's why we wear natural fabrics, and it's why we don't stucco our homes. Granted, there are a lot of people in Westport and Darien who grew up on the island and vowed to end all the ridicule by buying a first home here, but these are the people who wear Nicole Miller and practically strive out loud. As far as we're concerned, Long Island might as well be Barbados—fine for a vacation, but year-round is so not going to happen."
"Ahh, fuck youse," responded a Penn Station commuter through a mouthful of Auntie Anne's pretzel. More »
